21 March 2007: Friendly fire

Two tales of people in trouble with their own colleagues.

In England a council employee has been fined by his own colleagues for dropping a cigarette out of his car window. The unnamed man at was caught discarding the cigarette end and has been issued with a fixed penalty notice by the Bournemouth Borough Council technical services department, in which he works.

And a senior tax official in Kazakhstan is being investigated for tax evasion. Sabit Kanatov, who is deputy chairman of the country's Tax Committee, is accused of evading about £40,000 in taxes.